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regret occafioned by his lofs was not confined to his native country, is fhown by the vote of condolence paffed in the French Chambers on the 5th July 1850, under the Presidency of Monfieur Dupin.

CHARLES BARON TENTERDEN.

HE Right Honourable

Charles Abbott, fon of
John Abbott, of Canter-
bury, born in 1762, was

a member of Corpus Chrifti College
Oxford, and afterwards called to the
Bar by the Honourable Society of the

Inner Temple. He was appointed, in 1815, a Justice of the Common-Pleas; and, the fame year, removed to the King's Bench; was Knighted on the 14th of May 1816; elevated, in 1818, to the poft of Lord-ChiefJuftice of the King's Bench; and created Baron Tenterden, of Hendon in the county of Middlefex, on the 30th of April 1827.

His Lordship was elected a member of the Grocers' Company on the 8th July 1829, and was prefented with the freedom on the 23d of the fame month.

He died on the 4th November 1832, and was buried in the vaults under the chapel of the Foundling Hofpital, of which inftitution he was for many years a Governor. On his monument is infcribed the following memorial, at once modeft and claffical, written by himself:

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Prope Situs eft

Carolus Baro Tenterden
Joannis et Alicia Abbott
filius natu minor
humillimæ fortis parentibus

Patre vero prudenti matre pia ortus
fcholæ regiæ Cantuarienfis

Poftea Collegii Corporis Chrifti Oxon alumnus

per annos xx in caufis verfatus
primo ad communia placita

mox ad placita coram ipfo Rege tenenda
Jufticiarius

deinde Jufticiarius Capitalis
gratia demum Georgii IV. Regis
in Baronum ordinem cooptatus
Quantum apud Britannos honeftus labor
favente Deo valeat

agnofcas lector.

Hæc de fe confcripfit

vir fummus idemque omnium modeftiffimus
Vixit annis LXX

deceffit die Nov. IV. anno facro M. DCCC. XXXII. uxorem duxit Mariam

Joannis Lagier Lamotte arm. filiam natu maximam quæ cariffimo marito dies non amplius XLV fuperfuit et juxta fepulta eft Parentibus. optimis defideratiffimis liberi mærentes

pofuerunt.

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE LIEUTENANTGENERAL SIR GEORGE MURRAY, K. B.

HE Right Honourable Sir
George Murray, Knight-
Grand-Crofs of the Moft
Honourable Military

Order of the Bath, a Member of His
Majesty's Moft Honourable Privy
Council, and one of His Majesty's

Principal Secretaries of State, was admitted into the freedom of the Wardens and Commonalty of the Myftery of Grocers of the City of London, on the 8th of July 1829, pursuant to the unanimous refolution of a Court of Affiftants. It was prefented to him at an entertainment given at Grocers' Hall, on the 23d of the fame month.

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